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Does anybody know where I can find primary school admissions furthest distances? Southwark council has published the figures for this year's intake, but I want to see what the trends are for my nearest schools so I thought it would be good to have the distances from a few years back too

Here's the Starting School in Southwark 2014/15 booklet that should have distances for this year (p. 18): http://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/2483/primary_school_admissions


If you google "Starting School in Southwark" and a different year the old version of this same booklet should come up.


Same for Lewisham.

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This tool is slightly frustrating (but is the one that is consistently recommended) - if you live on a long road, your postcode just narrows it down to the houses on your side of the street. So when you put a postcode into this mapping tool, it just picks a point on the middle of our road, which is quite long and we live right at the end.

Can anyone enlighten me as to how to use it more accurately?!

Just worked out.... Scroll down the page to below map, click on 'measure distance tool'


You can then plot exact crow flies distance by touching map ( ie your house location) the adding second point as school location. Much more accurate


Press clear last point or clear map to try again


More accurate than just postcode

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